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Regardless of you being system administrators, software developers or Windows users, you've certainly witnessed Windows Explorer / Explorer.exe crash a number of times. Whenever this happens, most of the time …
Windows Explorer & Explorer.exe crash, desktop freeze and taskbar gone - How to fix them all without rebooting Read More
Despite having been shutdown for good some years ago, the Microsoft Jet Data Access Objects interface (better known as DAO) is still up and running, as it's still being used …
Using DAO from Excel VBA VBS Without MS Access installed Read More
Installing PHP on a Windows machine is quite simple, expecially if you rely on the official setup packages or (even better, if you're using IIS) the great PHP Manager tool …
PHP Error 500 - Cannot start php-cgi.exe - MSVCR110.dll is missing - How to fix Read More If you're using PHP on Windows with IIS you most certainly know the PHP Manager for IIS tool, an excellent GUI that integrates within the IIS Manager interface as a snap-in …
How to install PHP Manager for IIS on Windows Server or Windows 10 Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against an old .BKF archive/backup file of some sort. As you might already know these are the files …
Open BKF files in Windows 10 without NTBackup with NT5Backup Read More
If you stumbled upon this post it probably means that your favourite MySQL management client (SQLyog, MySQL Workbench or any other) and/or your MySQL-based website or service is suddently unable …
MySQL User Password Expired: how to (permanently) fix it Read More
If you're working a lot with MySQL you're most certainly aware of MySQL Workbench, the official administration & management framework for MySQL DBAs and operators: that suite comes shipped with a …
SQLyog - The best freeware MySQL Administration GUI for Windows Read More If you're a System Administrator working with MySQL, you're probably aware about the fact that the most effective way to automatize various tasks on regular basis is using command-line scripts …
MySQL - Secure alternative to include the password in command line scripts using mysql_config_editor and Host Alias Read More
Any System Administrator will agree that the Internet Information Services log files are an invaluable resource for any Web Server machine, since they are the only built-in tool that allows to effectively …
Manage IIS Log Files and purge those older than N days with a Powershell script or a batch file Read More
Among the first things we usually want to do right after we've installed a brand-new Windows Server is to also install Google Chrome. Doing that won't always be easy, though, because …
Install Google Chrome on Windows Server with a Powershell Script Read More